The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 73
"Don't cry for real," whispered George, "or you'll get chilblains in your eyes.
Who acts: you, George · What happens: not cry, whisper, get · To what, where: chilblains, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, George), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cry | advmod |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 real | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | parataxis |
| 10 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 George | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 George | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 whispered | conj |
| 17 | chilblains | chilblain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | for real | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for real=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | George | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | future | you | chilblains | your eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chilblain=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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